The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature
Ralph Hexter and David Townsend
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface, Ralph Hexter and David Townsend
I. Framing the Field: Problematics and Provocations
1. The Current Questions and Future Prospects of Medieval Latin Studies, David Townsend
2. Canonicity, Ralph Hexter
II. Latinity as Cultural Capital
3. Latin as an Acquired Language, Carin Ruff
4. Latin as a Language of Authoritative Tradition, Ryan Szpiech
5. The Cultures and Dynamics of Translation into Medieval Latin, Thomas E. Burman
6. Regional Variation: The Case of Scandinavian Latin, Karsten Frijs-Jensen
7. The Idea of Latinity, Nicholas Watson
III. Manuscript Culture and the Materiality of Latin Texts
8. Readers and Manuscripts, Andrew Taylor
9. Gloss and Commentary, Rita Copeland
10. Location, Location, Location: Geography, Knowledge, and the Creation of Medieval Latin Textual Communities, Ralph Hexter
IV. Styles and Genre
11. Prose Style, Gregory Hays
12. Verse Style, Jean-Yves Tilliette [translated from French]
13. Crossing Generic Boundaries, A. G. Rigg
14. Textual Fluidity and the Interaction of Latin and the Vernacular Languages, Brian Murdoch
V. Systems of Knowledge
15. Martianus Capella and the Liberal Arts, Andrew Hicks
16. Mythography, Winthrop Wetherbee
17. Biblical Thematics: The Story of Samson in Medieval Literary Discourse, Greti Dinkova-Bruun
18. The Language, Form and Performance of Monophonic Liturgical Chants, Susan Boynton and Margot Fassler
VI. Medieval Latin and the Fashioning of the Self
19. Regimens of Schooling, Mia Münster-Swendsen
20. Gender, Sylvia Parsons and David Townsend
21. Sex and Sexuality, Larry Scanlon
22. Medieval Latin Spirituality: Seeking Divine Presence, Anne Clark
23. Modes of Self-Writing From Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages, Gur Zak
VII. Periodizations
24. Late Antiquity, New Departures, Marco Formisano
25. Renaissances and Revivals, Monika Otter
26. Humanism and Continuities in the Transition to the Early Modern, Ronald Witt
27. Medieval Latin Texts in the Age of Printing, Paolo Chiesa [translated from Italian]
28. Medieval Latin in Modern English: Translations from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, Jan Ziolkowski
Chronology of Medieval Latin Authors
Index